Re: Literacy

From: Sean <sean@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:28:02 GMT

Jim Breen wrote:

aesthete8@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

According to the following article, that is changing:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4D8133DF933A25751C1A9669C8B63

Quote:

"A century ago, during the Meiji Restoration, a national drive to
catch up to the West, literacy in Japan became universal ....."

Total fantasy, of course.

You could play "spot the errors" with that article. Nice to know
the Meiji Restoration was "a century ago".

It used to be a century ago. It's hard to keep up with all these
changing facts.
.

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